Recent content by Josie*paolillo

Thanks everyone, I love him :) My son called him "king" which fits his personality!

I've turned the heat down to 79 to prevent the Bacteria growing more. Im hoping that too, already there's a tiny bit of new growth on the less affected areas, I'm just worried about the huge splits in his fins :(

My crowntail betta :)

They are probably planaria, over feeding is often the cause. They won't harm the fish, and some fish like to snack on them :)

Basically, I have taken this betta off my sister as I saw him for the first time in weeks and he has ended up with finrot. He was in a 3 gallon ( filtered and heated) but I got him into an 8 gallon I had just finished cycling for endlers (sigh) so his fin rot looks pretty bad, and I'm wondering...

I've heard new life spectrum for bettas is the best :)

When a fish gets red gills this is often a sign of high ammonia levels, it means the ammonia is burning their gills. The water changes have obviously helped. Keep up with the water changes, try not to worry about him not eating, fish can't last a while without eating. Regular water changes, and...

Thanks for such a warm welcome :) sorry the pics are such bad quality :( here is the barb tank This is the tank in cycling for a betta. I have another 8 gallon I'm going to set up for endlers too :)

Hi :) I joined this forum a while back, but don't think I ever actually posted! I have three tanks, one 100 gallon tank with three goldfish and 2 dojo loaches (plan on getting another, they were a gift...) and a hillstream loach ( fiancé added him without asking a few months ago, I'm surprised...

If the tank has not been set up for long, I'm guessing this is more to do with water quality issues than anything else. What symptoms of swim bladder did you see? I think it would be highly unlikely all the fish had swim bladder problems at the same time, and is far more likely to be...